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419 Appian Reviews
4.5 out of 5
419 Appian Reviews
4.5 out of 5

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Mark W.
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Appian & OpenText Cordys BPM Designer/Developer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Appian?

Smoothness of developer experience.

Built-in tips, context sensitive help and

Ecosystem support are great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

- Proprietary, lack of migration tools to open source products and tools or other cots vendor tools.

- Serious coding skills unique to Appian are required to produce most real-world applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

Appian have a great team of people who are able to visual a product and support the sprints to deliver a real functioning product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

I do not have anything to dislike about Appain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

The development speed and incremental improvements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Business thinks we can do magic - expecting very speedy results while we depend on other systems as wel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

I like that it's feature rich and easy to use. The UI is self explanatory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

I feel that the documentation sometimes lacks detail in what needs to be found, such as technical terms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

S.K S.
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Smart cities research
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What do you like best about Appian?

The capability to spin off a Ui screen At best. Formulas, workflows, Database Readiness, worked on Prem hosting and great software patching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Software patching on Prem takes a lot if time , Minimum 20 minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

Flexibility, versatility, ease of use, AI skills Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

In practice it still takes a long time to build an app from scratch when we have to spell out every small detail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

Appian has variety of features like automation, AI, process model, data fabrication, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

We can't front end design of appian it's pretty much same design and menus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Reza M.
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What do you like best about Appian?

It allows you to build very customizable, secure, polished apps with very few developers incredibly quickly. Easy integrations, many out of the box features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Sometimes the components are a bit limiting -- so you have to get creative if there is something appian doesn't offer out of the box Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Selamawit E.
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Software Developer II / Appian
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What do you like best about Appian?

The fact that it's a powerful tool which allows to build several kinds of applications and workflows in short period of time. It's very user friendly and provides many features business needs. I like that it is low-code platform development and easy to learn as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Not much but if document storage and management are improved it will be a great addition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lokesh V.
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What do you like best about Appian?

The technology it has got to change the world's perspective of digital data security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

The monitoring tool and the advanced automation system development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.